2018-01-03

[Inesa Sinkevych_Pf]

Inesa Sinkevych is a Ukrainian born Israeli concert pianist,
currently living in New York. Her recent CD, Schubert Piano Works was released
in 2012. She has performed as a soloist with the Israeli Philharmonic,
Minnesota Orchestra, Gulbenkian Symphony, Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestras,
as well as solo recitals in such venues as the Purcell Room at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall in London, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall
in New York, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona. She was awarded
top and special prizes at the Arthur Rubinstein International Master Piano
Competition in Tel Aviv, Piano-e-Competition in Minneapolis, Vianna da Motta
International Piano Competition in Portugal, among others. She received her DMA
from the Manhattan School of Music.

A laureate of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano
Master Competition, Ukrainian-born pianist Inesa Sinkevych has also won first
prizes in the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona and at
the Concurso Internacional de Piano Premio “Jaén” in Spain, as well as awards
in the Minnesota International Yamaha Piano-e-Competition, the Vianna da Motta
and the Porto international competitions in Portugal, the Casagrande
International Competition in Italy, the Panama International Competition and
the the Cidade del Ferrol and the Spanish Composers competitions in Spain.

Inesa Sinkevych has been praised for her “intense, thrilling and sophisticated
playing” (General-Anzeiger, Germany), “grand passion and elegant lyricism”
(Audiophile Audition), her “rich cantabile” (Ritmo, Spain), “maturity that
belies her age”, and called a “Schubertian of real distinction” (Music Web
International).

As soloist she has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic, the
Minnesota Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon, the Gran Canaria
Philharmonic of Spain, the Porto Symphony of Portugal and the Tenerife Symphony
of the Canary Islands. She has performed as recitalist, chamber player and
orchestral soloist at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the Purcell Room in
London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Minnesota’s Orchestra Hall, the Palau de la
Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Hong Kong City Hall and the Great Hall of the
Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.

She has also performed at international
summer festivals in France, Spain, Italy, and Cuba. Recent performances include
appearances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall
in New York, Bar Harbor Music Festival, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in
Chicago, a tour of China that included performances in Shanghai, Beijing,
Shenyang and Guangzhou, and soloist with the Orquesta Nacional del Cuba.

Inesa
Sinkevych began her piano studies at the Kharkov Special Music School in her
native Ukraine with Victor Makarov and later studied with Alexander Volkov at
the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. A scholarship from the America–Israel
Cultural Foundation enabled her to further her studies with Solomon Mikowsky in
the United States, where she received her Master of Music degree at the Chicago
College of Performing Arts and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Manhattan
School of Music.

Ms. Sinkevych has been a member of the Manhattan School
of Music Piano Faculties of the College Division since 2014 and the Precollege
Division since 2008.